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Researcher · University of Waterloo · Canada

Lennart E. Nacke

Lennart E. Nacke publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Human-Computer Interaction, on topics such as Educational Games and Gamification, Digital Games and Media and Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts.

ORCID 0000-0003-4290-8829 OpenAlex
World rank
#30,558
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#750
of 183,316
Works
313
Citations
24k
Citations per work
76.1
h-index
56
i10-index 175Top 1.3% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Lennart E. Nacke

What does Lennart E. Nacke research?

Lennart E. Nacke's work is mostly in Psychology (26%), Computer Science (22%), Social Sciences (16%).

Social Sciences: 132 works · 42.2% of their workPsychology: 81 works · 25.8% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 64 works · 20.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 17 works · 5.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 51 works · 16.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 51 works · 16.4% of their workEverything else: 92 works · 29.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 69 works · 22.2% of their workComputer Science: 69 works · 22.2% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 50 works · 15.9% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 20 works · 6.3% of their workLife Sciences: 19 works · 6.1% of their workNeuroscience: 19 works · 6.1% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 19 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKLennart E. Nacke313works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences22%Social Sciences42%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology8125.8%
    2. Social Sciences5116.4%
  2. Everything else9229.5%
    1. Computer Science6922.2%
    1. Neuroscience196.1%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology20% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3Human-Computer Interaction16% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience6% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lennart E. Nacke's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Learning Outcomes, Intrinsic Motivation, Student Engagement, Social Interaction, Game-Based Learning, Gamification, Online Gaming and Video Games.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Learning Outcomes1992 topics
  2. Intrinsic Motivation1692 topics
  3. Student Engagement1692 topics
  4. Social Interaction1612 topics
  5. Game-Based Learning1431 topic
  6. Gamification1431 topic
  7. Online Gaming1051 topic
  8. Video Games1051 topic
  9. Health Behavior Change832 topics
  10. Embodiment561 topic
  11. Presence561 topic
  12. Design Research491 topic
  13. User Experience491 topic
  14. Monte Carlo Tree Search401 topic
  15. Procedural Content Generation401 topic
  16. Narrative Persuasion341 topic
  17. Transportation341 topic
  18. Flow Theory261 topic
  19. High School Classrooms261 topic
  20. Attention Lapses211 topic
  21. Mind Wandering211 topic

Where does Lennart E. Nacke work?

Lennart E. Nacke's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Waterloo, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Lennart E. Nacke have?

OpenAlex counts 313 works and 23,816 citations for Lennart E. Nacke, an h-index of 56, ranking #30,558 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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